From: "Mike Taylor" <[log in to unmask]>
> I suppose I have no _practical_ objection to this, since I will simply
> ignore and make my servers suppport REC and my clients request REC.  I
> still object to it philoshophically, because it's dumb.

It's dumb? It does exactly what we want it to do at base level with no
additional complexity for  base-level implementation, while providing
extensibility for additional schemas.  So I would say "it's smart!".

--Ray